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      <pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;

int
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         Set the byte order for integers in the stored database metadata.  The
         host byte order of the machine where the Berkeley DB library was
         compiled will be used if no byte order is set.
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         <span class="bold"><strong>The access methods provide no guarantees about
         the byte ordering of the application data stored in the database, and
         applications are responsible for maintaining any necessary
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         The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;set_lorder()</code> method configures a database, not only
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         If creating additional databases in a single physical file,
         information specified to
         <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;set_lorder()</code> will be ignored and the
         byte order of the existing databases will be used.     

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         The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;set_lorder()</code> <span>
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                          The <span class="bold"><strong>lorder</strong></span> parameter should represent
                          the byte order as an integer; for example, big endian order is the
                          number 4,321, and little endian order is the number 1,234.
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                         The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;set_lorder()</code> <span>
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